Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-06-21

level. / vent to the 100 level. The mer
had got the shot off. Harry Ether went
down the winze; thought they had holed
through; there was no smoke there; he re
turned TO the 100 level; started with me
to go to the 200 level to see IL the connec'
ton was made. We went to the sta
ton; took the q to the 200 level;
went to the raiso and Ether went 10
where they were to make the con-
nection. I went a short time after.
wards and met Charley Bradbury; he told
me four or five men were sick in the raise;
did not know but some OF them were dead
wanted men to take them out; told him to
hurry to the station. We went to the
station; l sent him to the surface TO get
all the men that we're there to spare. We
took the cage at 200 level; 1 went to the
100 level and took all the men off TO help
get out all the men who were sick. Three
men had got from the 200 to the 100 level
before I did. These we're Frank Mello-
vich, James Rourke and Thomas Harris;
they were at the raise when l got there.
Mellovich and Rourke were up the raise
and had a rope around Gus Sellberg;
think they were up about 40 feet; were
lowering him down to the bottom at the
200 level. Men we're stationed along raise
to help get him down; four of US took
the other men down same way; Mellovich,
John Nicholas, Jr., John Williams. Jr.,
and myself. After we got to the bottom
of raise, when I Was helping to get the
men down, there were more men assisting
to take the sick men onward; the men on
the main level taking the sick men out on
the trucks to the station. / think the men
died from ~suffocation from Hercules
powder gas and smoke. This occurred be-
tween 8 and and 10 O'Clock A. M, this goth
day of June, in the Richmond mine. /
do not think the men were dead when we
took them out; I thought I heard one OF
them roam. They died soon after we got
them out. The air was good in the raise
before the blast was fired. The dead men
we're miners in the employ Of the Rich
mond Company,
Lou Dunkle deposed and said: About
9 or 10 o'clock this morning Longley told
me to go down and see If those men had
knocked a hole through from the raise at
the 200 level to the winze from the 100
level. / went down and went to the bot
tom Of the upraise; found Borgeson, Sell.
berg and Mcintosh there; noticed con-
siderable smoke was coming down the
raise from a blast that had been fred q
short time before in the winze; told them
that I thought il strange that the draught
should come down the raise instead Of up.
Borgeson said he thought il should 60 up.
He said, 1 guess I'll go up and see what
kind OF q hole 1t made. | said, I'm with
you. When we got up the first ladder, I
said, 1 don't believe we'll ever make it;
yes, we will, l think, said he; il is lighter
up here; the smoke goes down. So we
kept going up until / commenced to feel
dizzy. l said we had better 60 back; nc,
said he, I'm all right; Pm pretty near to
the platform. I said, well, I'm going
down; you had better come. too. I don't
remember the reply he made, as
1 started down. When l got down
I expected that he was following me,
but he did not. When l noticed that he
did not come down. I followed up after
him, but received no reply. I said to
Gus Sellberg, l guess he's q goner. Gus
said. come on, we'll bring him down. l
knew IL would be q pretty close shave If
we went up their again; 80 I told Nc
Intosh to go out to the station and bring
some men in who were working there, as !
thought that we would have to have some
body to pull us out, and followed Gus up
the ladder. We found Borgeson on top
Of the platform. IS feet up. pulled up
q rope that was lying in the raise and
gave II to Gus to put around B%orgeson's
body to lower him down the raise to the
200 level. l said: You lower him with
Q rope and / will put my arm around him
and walk down the ladder. Then I began
to feel 80 dizzy that / could not hold on
any longer. I stepped my foot between
the ladder and the side of the raise to
keep me from falling, and the next thing
I knew I was lying out on the crosscut at
the 800 level. The names Of the dead
men were Gus Sellberg and Emanuel Bor-
geson. Sellberg I should think was
about 81 or % years of age and Borgeson
TO have been about As or so years old. I
an time.keeper and sampler at the Rich
mond mine, and perform any other duties
that may be assigned to me.
This ending the testimony, the jury re-
tired to the %company's Office to consider
accordance with the testimony, that Borge-
son and Sellberg had come to their death
by Hercules powder gas and smoke.
The unfortunate men, whose untimely
death we here record, were natives of
Sweden-Borgeson from the town Of War
berg and Sellberg from Jonkoping. They
came from Bullion District to Eureka
about six months ago. Here came they
as partners and as partners they died.
They leave many friends behind them in
Eureka, but In their native country they
leave s~orrowing relatives to mourn their
loss.
An Absolute Cure.